By Shamindra Ferdinando
A nine-member committee tasked with preparing a draft Constitution is scheduled to meet government representatives over the weekend.
The SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna), PHU (Pivithuru Hela Urumaya), NFF (National Freedom Front) and MEP (Mahajana Eksath Peramuna) will make representations before the Committee.
The committee appointed in the first week of Sept. 2020 consists of Romesh de Silva PC, Gamini Marapana PC, Manohara De Silva PC, Sanjeewa Jayawardena PC, Samantha Ratwatte PC, Prof. Naazima Kamardeen, Dr. A. Sarveswaran, Prof. Wasantha Seneviratne and Prof. G.H. Peiris.
Romesh de Silva heads the committee.Sources said that the SLPP, PHU and NFF would make representations today (23) and the MEP tomorrow (24).
The Gampaha District SJB Member of Parliament Ranjan Ramanayake, who was sentenced to four-years Rigorous Imprisonment on Tuesday (January 12), will lose his Parliamentary seat, just four months after getting re-elected.
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Colombo (News 1st); Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said she cannot comment if the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, which she led while President, is moving on the correct path or not.
Speaking at the 122nd birth anniversary of late Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranayake on Friday (08), the Former President said she predicted the SLFP would be treated unfairly when it joined the government to form an alliance.
‘I have not left the SLFP and I am still an advisor and member of the Politburo,’ said the Former President adding she is disappointed over the SLFP’s state of affairs.
Monday 28th December, 2020
Stinking landfills and waste imports are likely to earn Sri Lanka, which was once known as ‘the Granary of the East’, the epithet of ‘Garbage Dump of the East’. An investigation is reportedly underway into the importation of 28 shipping containers of agricultural waste from Ukraine. The waste arrived here, the other day, in the guise of a consignment of coriander seeds. One of the companies that imported the foreign garbage has claimed that it has been cheated; it says it ordered coriander seeds but received agricultural waste instead. This sounds a tall tale. Only a thorough probe will help establish the veracity or otherwise of this claim. The import of waste looks a well-organised racket. The possibility of shiploads of waste from Ukraine having already been dumped here cannot be ruled out.
D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Sixty-one years ago on September 25th 1959 Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (SWRDB) the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka known as Ceylon then was shot and seriously wounded by a Buddhist monk. Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike succumbed to his injuries and passed away the following day. Therefore September 26th 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-independence history annals of Sri Lanka.
The impact of that single assassination was tremendous at that time. The murder of a prime minister was sensationally shocking news. It was the first major political assassination experienced by the Island nation in the post-Independence era. In later years, political assassinations became a regular feature in Sri Lanka.. The death was an event of great historical importance too as it was the first ever assassination of a major political personality in the Island nation at that time. Thereafter September 26, 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-independence